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Headword: *fineu/s
Adler number: phi,467
Translated headword: Phineus
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
A proper name.[1] Also [sc. attested is] 'Phineides', [meaning] someone [descended] from Phineus.[2]
Greek Original:
*fineu/s: o)/noma ku/rion. kai\ *finei/dhs, o( a)po\ tou= *fine/ws.
Notes:
[1] Phineus was a blind(ed) Thracian seer-king in mythology, encountered by the Argonauts. See OCD(4) s.v. for summaries of the two main versions of the myth; cf. tau 620, and see further, next note.
[2] The nominative singular is attested only here, but for the myth of the Phineidai (dramatized by Sophocles and others) see Diodorus Siculus 4.43.3-44.7.
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; historiography; mythology; tragedy
Translated by: David Whitehead on 28 April 2003@03:12:15.
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